Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 2 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 3 | Hitchcock wanted her for The Birds but she turned him down . |
| 4 | I would n't be able to break the story , and neither would the cops if they dug him out . |
| 5 | That story , you see , was invented originally by the Russians to cover up the fact that Zbigniew was badly tortured by the guards before they shot him . |
| 6 | He reminded himself to ask one of the guards when they brought him his next meal … |
| 7 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 8 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 9 | Complications coordinator distributed the postcards that he 'd he printed and the S T V voting regulations he was requested to bring on . |
| 10 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 11 | His tormentors had snapped off the lights as they wished him goodnight , and it was completely dark . |
| 12 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 13 | Other people were near the table with the drinks and nobody noticed him slide the knife into the water . |
| 14 | He roused himself wearily to exchange greetings with the elders as they passed him , and went in to his foster-father . |
| 15 | When he again tried to speak to her at her friend 's home where she was staying , Mary called the police and they persuaded him to leave . |
| 16 | I phoned the police and they arrested him , then they took me up there . |
| 17 | And Manningham dare not call the police because they convinced him his every move was being monitored . |
| 18 | Someone saw him and called the police When they arrived he shimmied right to the very top of one of the chimneys . |
| 19 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 20 | Jed had made his selection ; three toys stood out on their own in the middle of the floor , these being the ones that he reckoned he could do without . |
| 21 | He could see the end coming , and it was just as she 'd said ; the friends he 'd made and lost , and the women that he wished he 'd known better . |
| 22 | He asked Dr Bailey , where were the students and she told him that today , Wednesday , was a non-teaching day , reserved for sports and study . |
| 23 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 24 | His lack of new-technology experience had been ignored by Pilger and the others when they chose him for his production skills . |
| 25 | Delphi is a good barometer : the oracle said ( Thuc. i. 118 ) that Apollo would fight on the side of the Spartans whether they invoked him or not . |
| 26 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 27 | The sultan , however , refused to avail himself of this " Vienna Note " , on the grounds that it required him to make too many concessions . |
| 28 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 29 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |